Be at Leisure: A Lutheran Approach to Outreach, Epilogue
Because I’m the pastor of a mission congregation, I’m often asked about outreach and evangelism. I think some people assume that I must…
Because I’m the pastor of a mission congregation, I’m often asked about outreach and evangelism. I think some people assume that I must…
Invitation happens most naturally in the realm of vocation, that is, in one’s stations in life. One need not expend great amounts of…
At the recent LCMS convention, a recurring topic was the decline of the church. President Harrison had written about it in his report….
President Matthew Harrison of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod speaks about 40 years of declining membership in the synod. In his President’s…
In its mission, the church always has run up against some recurring stock errors in the world’s thinking. These errors have a strong…
Here in the commonwealth of Virginia, we moved Concordia Lutheran Mission from Lexington to Buena Vista because we were led to find a…
New ideas require new ways of speaking. Old terminology doesn’t cut it when it comes to modern conceptions of church, especially when those…
A month ago a well-known Biblical scholar, Marcus Borg gave two lectures at Lexington Presbyterian, “Lex Pres”, here in Lexington,Virginia. Lexington is home to…